Re: [xdi] Agenda: XDI TC Telecon Thursday 8-9AM PT 2008-02-28

[Victor Grey <victor@idcommons.org>]

Sorry I won't be able to make the call today.
The serialization proposals from Bill sound very exciting -- I can't  
wait!

=vg

Barnhill, William [USA] wrote:
> I should however put my money where my mouth is, so I'm
> doing a V10 draft (plus other docs) over the weekend and will post the
> docs for review on Monday evening.
>
> One example of a serialization topic we haven't discussed is  
> whether we
> will support a binary transmission protocol or whether all XDI traffic
> will be text. To this end I'll include in the serialization doc a new
> proposed serialization format, .1X3, which is a mapping of X3  
> syntax to
> ASN.1. This will allow binary transmission by applying ASN's BER  
> (Binary
> Encoding Rules) to XDI RDF.
>
> Another thing I'd like to see with the base X3 serialization is a  
> change
> from using [ and ]. Both Erlang and JSON use { and }, so in the new
> version I'll present a proposed new syntax that allows X3 notation  
> to be
> loaded as JSON data or as an Erlang term (similar to .app files in
> Erlang applications).